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Post by gator on Mar 23, 2019 5:12:24 GMT
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Post by gator on Mar 23, 2019 5:13:28 GMT
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Henry Fielding
(1707-1754)
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Post by gator on Mar 24, 2019 5:27:58 GMT
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander Hamilton
(1755-1804)
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Post by gator on Mar 25, 2019 4:45:15 GMT
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963)
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Post by gator on Mar 26, 2019 4:47:42 GMT
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this.
Gustave Flaubert
(1821-1880)
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Post by gator on Jun 13, 2019 11:59:04 GMT
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
Gustave Flaubert
(1821-1880)
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Post by gator on Jul 17, 2019 20:49:24 GMT
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed in any longer.
Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941)
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Post by gator on Jul 18, 2019 4:45:53 GMT
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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Post by gator on Jul 19, 2019 4:14:24 GMT
Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616)
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Post by gator on Jul 20, 2019 6:23:14 GMT
States, as great engines, move slowly.
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)
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Post by gator on Jul 21, 2019 7:09:08 GMT
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
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Post by gator on Jul 22, 2019 4:44:31 GMT
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
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Post by gator on Jul 23, 2019 4:13:57 GMT
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965)
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Post by gator on Jul 24, 2019 7:25:13 GMT
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
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Post by gator on Jul 25, 2019 4:57:52 GMT
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941)
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